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Tuesday 25 February 2025 10:52:12 PM CST

Flowers of the Night is from Baron von Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun. That was Paul Kantner and Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane and a bunch of other people including most the Airplane folks and people like Jerry Garcia and David Crosby and the young guy that would later be the Jefferson Starship and even later Starship guitarist. Overall it's pretty good. Flowers is about revolutionaries and revolutions generally with references to the French and Russian revolutions.



The Google AI thing correctly deduces that sarcasm was the point but the Airplane/Starship folks were sarcastic a lot. I used to play the the vinyl side 2 first because Across the Board is a better opener. I like Grace's piano style and she also sings it so a pretty good deal. In fact it's probably my favorite track with Flowers taking second place. Google got the part about Paul Kantner writing it wrong - it was written by Jack Traylor. Later I asked Google about it again and it sez it's by Jefferson Airplane so it's definitely not ready for prime time.

Okey-dokey. Bad weather over so the malefactors may be gettin' out and malefacting and we get some crime reports. Not that I like crime but it don't seem to stop so I like to keep up with it. Or do the political stuff? KJNB tells us about Dan Bongino being appointed deputy FBI boss. Actually it sez "Trump names right-wing podcaster as FBI deputy director." Now Dan is probably best known as a podcaster because he got pretty famous that way. But how come they didn't say "President Trump names former police officer and Secret Service agent as FBI deputy director?" That would be accurate and informative but that isn't what news is for. Not for these folks anyways.

They arrested the guy alleged to have kilt a highway construction worker back in November. Caught this one in Chicago. You might remember he and somebody else stole a Caddy and a Corvette and fled to Memphis where they found the 'vette burned but not this perp. Guess he probably be in the Crittenden County Detention Center when they get him back to Arkansas bein' as the killin' ocurred in CrittCo. Believe I mentioned a while back they got a lousy website... hang on....

What, Chris?

Nah, just readin' the names to see if there anything especially unusual. OK, I'll check back later and see if he in there. Did I mention that the CrittCo jail is one of the ones I'd least like to be in. Left Memphis, Forrest City, no thanks. Not that I wanna be in any jail. Back in the day, 1960s I's a kid at home Mom listening to the radio all day and I hear the commercials. There a company I guess Crittenden or Cross County that distributed beer. Schlitz was big back then, probably about like Budweiser or maybe bigger. Hear the commercials all day for the Critt-Cross distributing company. Mom wasn't listening much except when the news come on ever hour. And the hospital report and funeral announcements whenever that was, maybe after the 6-oclock news. The songs she couldn't have been paying much attention to as I heard stuff like The Grapes in Mary's Vineyard and The Birthmark Henry Thompson Talks About or maybe she figured I'm too young to get what it was about. Anyhow something happened to Schlitz, don't remember what. Maybe some marketing snafu like New Coke? Anyhow it weren't as popular any more.

Jonestown paper ain't got any new editorial stuff yet, Paragould neither. Commentate on world stuff? Nah, take a break.












Wednesday 26 February 2025 17:23:43 PM CST

I use Firefox about all the time. Occasionally use Chrome for something or other but FF is the most comfortable. The default install has the adblocker disabled and some silly thing they call "Pocket". It puts up a screen of links to mostly trash. The chicken thing is some food site with no overt politics but most people don't understand the situation. Small personal flocks - backyard chickens - are a target. That's why somehow while they killing ten to twenty million chickens because they found a half dozen somewhere with bird flu they also put news reports about people having it in their yardbirds. With some of the trash taken out at CDC there may be less Plandemic generation. Those old Bloomberg articles about one of the reasons Putin wants Ukraine is for the rare earth mineral deposits are still out there. And Russell Vought is one they really hate and fear. Slate is a relic from the attempt by Microsoft to achieve significance in the digital world. MSNBC is another - Billy Gates was still running the show and was always wrong about everything decided to start a TV channel that combined the two. It failed so bigly that Microsoft soon bailed out but name remained the same. Slate is a commie propaganda (digital) magazine.

In Jonestown most of the day. See what happened elsewhere. Lessee....

Jonestown paper had a new political toon and a couple of explanations how the end is coming soon because Trump and women and minorities will be hit hardest. The end that was getting close before Trump 2.0 was bad enough I believe I prefer the Trump version.

Some believe that MDS may be worse than TDS. Wonder what it's like bein' in the heads of them as has got both.












Thursday 27 February 2025 09:12:03 PM CST

MSLSD is paying Madcow twenty-something million to do a show that nobody watches. Not literally nobody but close - cats stepping on the remote could generate as many viewers as had. The bald woman has a lower IQ than Madcow who is maybe average. MSDNC is owned by Comcast and maybe they figured flushing money down a toilet at that rate was worth it to prevent Trump 2.0. Now that it failed one need not be a genius to expect them to cut it loose - only question is who would buy it with CNN probably in the same position. The other three-letters are in another leaky boat and all might be on the market. Maybe a Newsweak magazine deal where they sell it for a dollar and assumption of debt? In other news Jeff Bezos seems to have noticed that the newspaper he bought was an anti-capitalist commie rag and told them to cut it out. That's got some folks raging impotently.

Okey-dokey, what happening locally? Over in Memphis - actually somewhere over the Mississippi River a woman leaped from the bridge into the water and the MPD Harbor Patrol fished her out. The Left Memphis police apparently witnessed it but Left Memphis don't have a harbor patrol. Reportedly she will receive a psychological evaluation. Ain't like jumping off the Golden Gate where it less than a half percent survive.

Get to the angry toon in the paper in a minute. Wynne had a drug bust of some people that would seem to be old enough to know better. I suspect I remember one of them from school days. His older brother was my age and we graduated together. Ran into him a while back and he had got a government job and retired with the pension and medical and all. He'd be about two years older - funny how different two brothers that close in age can turn out so different but I've seen it happen plenty.

About all of the local purveyors of news had the shootin' at Leachville so I'll give the backlink to Jonesbororightnow. Leachville little town over in Mississippi County. Knew a few people lived there back in the day, in the bank a couple of times on business when I was in that business. Anyhow it a sleepy little place where nothing much happens but it's in Mississippi County so there's that.

Big drug bust - bunch of people anyway - in Poinsett County. Some of them was old enough to know better too but some people never seem to get it.

Couple of other things in the stack of stuff but believe I'll stop there.

What, Chris?

Right, the cartoon of the day.












Friday 28 February 2025 09:43:03 PM CST

Google AI tells me that Jennifer engineered the second meeting (the first one was when he was jogging with Meathead the bulldog) because she wanted to see if she could get info about her targets. I'll have to watch it again and see if I pick that up - it did seem she wanted to have another encounter but don't remember just now how it happened. Anyhow we got her having a beer with Harry and he don't know she's the killer - he'll find that out after they end up in bed - and she seems a little startled that a Frisco homicide detective (she killed the first one in Frisco) has showed up in the same place she went lookin' for another one.

I approve of revenge if it don't break the law. Under the right circumstances I suppose lawbreaking could be justified but be prepared for the consequences if you get caught. Now whether it's the oldest motivation.... there's always money but I guess if it's retributive homicide it about has to be about revenge.

Last day of BHM and wasn't much in the news. Alphabet month is June but they got about a dozen or two holidays and weeks the rest of the year. Maybe it will eventually assume a similar status.

Jonestown and Paragould papers had new TDS/MDS toons. And opinions - I agree that some people need psychological help but not the kind that reinforces their delusions. As for Jim Guy's legacy - he got to be governor when Slick Willie left to be president and then got elected because Arkansas was still electing Democrat governors back then. Couple of years he was convicted of a crime and announced that he was not guilty but would resign and then decided he wouldn't resign until his appeals failed and that was when Lt. Governor Mick Huckabee started impeachment and Jim Guy went ahead and resigned. Jim Guy managed to avoid prison and Mike was governor until term-limited out and now his daughter is governor.












Saturday 1 March 2025 10:22:53 PM CST

Apparently there were quite a few illegals in Arkansas. Those aren't here any more or soon won't be.

I knew ten years ago not to leave vehicles unlocked in Paragould and much of the population growth has been undesirables.

Over in Memphis situation normal as regular crime is about average and the latest generation of a local crime family continues the tradition.

Jonestown paper about the same. It would be interesting to see the traffic on the website. Digital subscriptions about $75 a year and they ain't selling much paper. I doubt they pay much attention or even know now to analyze it - just haphazardly put content up and rely on ads. If they had a decent site and it was free they'd get more hits on what ads they do have. Have a premium content section for subscribers and probably make more money than they do now.

Editorially they got more TDS/MDS and what this is about I have no idea. It certainly isn't about President Trump - except for the writer's obsession with him. I don't believe I ever heard Trump talk about peace prizes and the unnamed advisor is probably fictional since these people as Ronald Reagan said "know a lot of things that aren't so". In any case who would want one when it has been given to bloody-handed genocidal terrorists and Obama was awarded one before he assumed office.

I listened to this conversation. I have overheard many conversations between collections officers and a customer behind on his loan payments. That's what Zelensky sounds like here except for the bad English.

Think I'll take the rest of the day off. Seeya.


























































Where are all the mercenaries paid for by the king? Have they joined the mob you say? Doesn't money mean anything? Flowers of the Night Baron vol Tollbooth and the Chrome Nun.

AI Overview Learn more This line, from the song "Flowers of the Night" by Jefferson Airplane, is a pointed question asking where the king's hired soldiers are, implying that even though they are paid, they have sided with the rebellious "mob" instead, suggesting that money and loyalty are not absolute in times of uprising. Key points about the lyric: Mercenaries and loyalty: The "mercenaries paid for by the king" are soldiers who are supposed to be loyal solely because they are paid by the monarch, but the question implies that this loyalty is not guaranteed, especially during a revolt. "Joined the mob": "Mob" here refers to the group of people rebelling against the king, suggesting that even the king's paid soldiers are turning against him. "Doesn't money mean anything?": This is a rhetorical question expressing disbelief that the mercenaries would abandon their financial incentive to fight for the king.

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Allen and I palled around after high school as we didn't go to college. We both worked at the copper tubing factory over in Benton. The money was good and we both had new cars before long and plenty of money for liquor and dope. Not that either of us did any dope besides pot. Fifteen dollars a lid and we only we smoked on weekends. Sometimes just the two of us or with a couple of girls or one or two other guys we trusted enough to get drunk or fucked up around, Fucked up meant getting high on pot but generally it meant being stoned. Just smoking a joint or two and getting mellowed out and listening to music was what we did. Andrew was a couple of years older than us and a small-time dealer. We each bought a lid or two from him every week or so and he seemed to do pretty well. He didn’t work and drove anew Trans-Am and lived in a house owned by his parents. They were both living in Alabama and visited occasionally but otherwise Andy and his kid sister had the place to themselves. She generally had a few friends over and doing what young people did while Andy had one of several girlfriends around most of the time. He explained the economics of dealing. “As pot goes," he said, "I get five or six pounds a week from a guy in St. Louis. One twenty five a pound. Sixteen lids at fifteen bucks is two-forty. One-fifteen it's nearly a hundred percent profit. You interested in getting in?" Three hundred and something a week at the factory and we were doing pretty well. We rented a place together and car payments were just over a hundred a month. An extra fifty bucks a week sounded good - if we sold a pound and split the profit. And the lid or two we would use would only cost seven to eight bucks. We went to St. Louis with Andy and bought a couple of pounds. He got two and some other stuff - I didn't want to know that it was - and we went back to Benton. We split the pounds into baggies and had it all sold in a week. “We're good," Allen said after we sold the last lid. “The only way they can get us now is if somebody testifies they bought from us, probably have to be at a grand jury.” That brought a sobering thought. We didn't do it again, figuring it wasn't worth the risk - not for a hundred bucks that we didn't even need. Eventually two guys we knew went to prison just that way and back then it could be up to ten years just for selling pot. Worse Than I Thought (2024)

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